Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

When she was born, she had no discernable lips, ears or nose. The resident of this west Japan city was among the roughly one ...

Amukelani, born with a cleft lip, is among 18 children receiving corrective surgery during Smile Week thanks to donors.

and prolonged length of stay and the lowest charges seen for White children. HealthDay News — Racial and ethnic differences are seen with primary cleft lip surgery repair, according to a study ...

The analysis included 5,927 children who underwent reconstructive surgery for cleft lip (without cleft palate repair) between 2006 and 2012. Data were drawn from the nationwide Kids' Inpatient ...

Data analyses demonstrated that non-White children were more likely to have delays to cleft lip surgery (after age six months ...

Q: How many of these types of patients do you treat each year? Kau: We see about 60 to 80 cleft lip palate births at Children’s Hospital each year and another 60 to 80 adoptions from other countries ...

Data analyses demonstrated that non-White children were more likely to have delays to cleft lip surgery (after age six months) – between 23% and 29%, compared to just eight percent for White ...

But the complications of a cleft lip and palate go beyond the cosmetic. Children with untreated clefts can struggle with lifelong difficulties, including breathing, sucking, swallowing ...

[Courtesy] Children born with cleft lip and palate face difficulties while suckling, and this is heartbreaking for mothers. Sylvia Krian, a mother of a three-month-old who was born with a cleft ...